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	Frank Matcham
		The success of the Elephant and Castle enhanced Matcham's reputation and, thereafter, he was much in demand to build theatres until by 1888 he was directly involved with the construction of five theatres at one time as well as being involved with the preliminary negotiations and planning of others.
		It is at this point of his career that Frank Matcham, who was obviously known in Blackpool for his Opera House, was approached by Sergenson to build the Grand Theatre.
		Matcham was architect of over 150 new theatres and remodellings of older ones and was renowned for the technical virtuosity of decoration, economy and rapidity of execution.
	www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /Matcham.htm (1898 words)

	Frank Matcham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Matcham and two architects he helped to train, Bertie Crewe and W.G.R. Sprague, were together responsible for the majority - certainly more than 200 - of the theatres and variety palaces of the great building boom which took place in Britain between about 1890 and 1915, peaking at the turn of the century.
		Matcham himself designed Blackpool Grand Theatre and the Wakefield Theatre Royal and Opera House in 1894, as well as Buxton Opera House and the Royal Hall (Kursaal), Harrogate in 1903.
		Matcham's Empire Palace Theatre, which was the centre-piece of the design, was demolished in the 1960s, but his surviving exteriors and the impressive County Arcade have been refurbished to a high standard.
	www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Frank_Matcham (545 words)

	Hackney Empire - Where Theatre Lives
		Frank Matcham was, beyond argument, one of the world's most accomplished and inventive theatre architects.
		Matcham and two architects he helped to train, Bertie Crewe and W.G.R. Sprague, were together responsible for the majority - certainly more than 200 - of the theatres and variety palaces of the great building boom which took place in Britain between about 1890 and 1915, peaking at the turn of the century.
		Frank Matcham's skill was well recognised by those who commissioned his buildings, but he did not begin to achieve fuller recognition until 50 years after his death - and it took a further 25 years to achieve the accolade of inclusion in the Dictionary of National Biography.
	www.hackneyempire.co.uk /history.php (1338 words)

	LMA Learning Zone > Theatreland > Architects > Frank Matcham 1854-1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Frank Matcham is widely known as the greatest and most prolific theatre architect of his time.
		Born in Newton Abbot in Devon, the son of a brewery manager, Matcham was apprenticed at 15 to a local architect and surveyor.
		Matcham went on to design over 150 new theatres all over Britain as well as remodelling older ones, and became renowned for the breadth and variety of his work.
	www.cityoflondon.gov.uk /corporation/lma_learning/theatreland/text.asp?ID=332 (593 words)

	Aberdeen Tivoli Theatre Website: Frank Matcham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Frank Matcham is universally recognised as Britain's most prolific and successful theatre architect.
		Matcham's expertise in theatre design was soon recognised nationally and he went from strength to strength designing over 80 theatres.
		Matcham was renowned for the ability to produce beautiful theatres on awkward sites and as a result became the architect of choice for any prestige theatrical project.
	www.aberdeentivoli.net /history/architects/frank-matcham.html (247 words)

	Frank Matcham Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The rehabilitation of Frank Matcham and his contemporaries in the last twenty or so years has been little short of astonishing.
		Matcham may have been looked down on by the architectural establishment in his lifetime.
		Of Matcham’s glorious 25 theatres, 20 are to varying degrees in live stage entertainment use and 17 of these are dedicated, full time, 52 weeks of the year, theatres.
	www.frankmatchamsociety.org.uk /mag.html (1804 words)

	Frank Matcham Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Following this, Matcham went from success to success and over the next 30 years he became unrivalled as the most prolific theatre architect of all time.
		It is impossible to be definitive as to his total output, but on current research we can say that he designed at least 80 theatres as original architect and he refitted or worked on at least as many again.
		Matcham never qualified as an architect and was snubbed by many in his profession, but he became the supreme example of his craft.
	www.frankmatchamsociety.org.uk (448 words)

	LMA Learning Zone > Theatrelands > Architects > Frank Matcham 1854-1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Matcham soon became attracted to Robinson’s youngest daughter Effie, whom he married in 1877.
		Matcham was never formally trained, and his designs were often criticised by contemporary critics as architecturally ‘illiterate’.
		His exuberant ornamentation and skill at dealing with technical challenges such as sight lines and acoustics made his theatres popular with audiences, while his renowned efficiency and sound business sense meant that there was a constant demand for his services from managers.
	www.cityoflondon.gov.uk /Corporation/lma_learning/theatrelands/text.asp?ID=332 (593 words)

	Theatre Royal Newcastle : Frank Matcham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During 1900 and 1901 the interior of the Theatre was completely re-designed by Frank Matcham, and is today recognised as one of his finest achievements and one of Britain’s greatest theatres.
		Frank Matcham developed a very personal style and no two buildings were ever identical.
		He was the supreme example of the unacademic architect who became a superb master of his craft and who could always be relied upon to deliver a lively, sensuous, interior, inexpensively constructed but always acutely aware of the technical difficulties of sightlines, acoustics and construction.
	www.theatreroyal.co.uk /content.asp?CategoryID=918 (432 words)

	CONSERVATION STATEMENT - Blackpool Grand Theatre
		In this instance however, the work of Frank Matcham is established and recognised as being of both national and indeed international significance.
		Frank Matcham (1854-1920) designed or significantly reconstructed over 150 theatres within the British Isles and is Great Britain’s most prolific theatre architect of all time.
		The Frank Matcham Society was established in 1994, following the centenary of the Theatre Royal, Wakefield that was built in the same year as the Grand Theatre, Blackpool.
	www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk /information/6/40/Conservation-Statement.htm (1995 words)

	Frank Matcham (1854-1920)
		The architect Frank Matcham specialised in music halls and other places of public entertainment.
		Outside London, among Matcham's many works are Blackpool Grand Theatre (1898), and the County Arcade in Leeds, noted on these pages.
		The nature of his commissions meant that there was ample scope for ornamentation, and he took full advantage of this, for example in the pinnacle statues of the Hippodrome and the Hackney Empire.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/arch/matcham.htm (132 words)

	Genesis Cinema History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lusby's was destroyed by fire in 1884 and its proprietors, Messrs Crowder and Payne, who had owned the theatre since 1878, hired the architect Frank Matcham to design a replacement theatre which was to be called the Paragon Theatre of Varieties.
		The design was so successful that Matcham became the most popular architect of his time, and he was later responsible for such theatres as the Victoria Palace, the London Palladium, the London Coliseum, the Richmond Theatre and Hackney Empire.
		Today Matcham is generally regarded as the finest theatre architect of his era.
	www.genesiscinema.com /genesis_cinema_history.htm (1159 words)

	Guardian \| Give them a big hand
		When his genius was in full spate, in the great theatre-building era which ran from the 1880s until the start of the first world war, he was often snootily written off by serious architects.
		Matcham was no longer vilified; he was simply ignored.
		Today, the Frank Matcham Society is satisfied that all of the master's surviving works are safe; and even more satisfied that so many are being restored with great skill and a proper fidelity to the master's intentions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4981194-103677,00.html (698 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Coliseum to get £41m renovation
		The Coliseum - which was designed by architect Frank Matcham - is considered to be a flamboyant masterpiece of theatre design.
		Matcham also designed the Hackney Empire, the Blackpool Grand Theatre, the arcades in Leeds and The Hippodrome building on Charing Cross Road.
		In the 96 years since Matcham created the Coliseum, it has had several lives; as a variety theatre, as a venue for the big American musicals of the l940s/50s and as a cinema.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1251000.stm (319 words)

	Visit Buxton: About Buxton - Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The likes of John Carr, Robert Rippon Duke and Frank Matcham have all contributed to the outstanding buildings throughout the town.
		In 1901 the Gardens Company commissioned a new theatre and the renowned theatrical architect Frank Matcham was brought in to design it.
		Matcham's other projects include the London Palladium and the London Coliseum Theatre and he used his expertise to design the Buxton Opera House.
	www.visitbuxton.co.uk /about/architecture.html (302 words)

	Buxton Opera House : About : Frank Matcham Biography
		Frank Matcham was born in Newton Abbott on 22 November 1854, the son of a brewery manager.
		Following this, Matcham went from success to success and, over the next 30 years he became unrivalled as the most prolific theatre architect of all time.
		Matcham died in 1920 of blood poisoning brought on by excessive trimming of his finger nails.
	www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk /about/frank-matcham (435 words)

	Arts-Info - Frank Matcham
		rguably the greatest and most prolific of British theatre architects, Matcham and his contemporaries, C.J.Phipps; William G.R. Sprague; Bertie Crewe; Frank T.Verity; Walter Emden; Alfred Darbyshire; Ernest Runtz and W. Milburn amongst others, were responsible for approximately 400 odd theatres and places of entertainment during the Late Victorian and Edwardian eras in the United Kingdom.
		Born in Devon, Matcham worked for a time in the Torquay area before eventually moving to London and joining the practice of Jethro Robinson - one of the foremost theatre architects of the day.
		Matcham also designed the County Arcade in Leeds and the Tower Circus and Tower Ballroom in Blackpool.
	www.arts-info.co.uk /pages/FrankMatcham2000.asp (270 words)

	London Hippodrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Photograph and text 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee This image may be used without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose.
		Frank Matcham designed the Hippodrome a music-hall and circus combined, complete with water tank for aquatic displays.
		Perhaps in an attempt to revive the tremendous spectaculars at Astley's Ampitheatre, its purpose was "to provide 'a circus show second to none in the world, combined with elaborate stage spectacles impossible in any other theatre'" (Weinreb 212).
	www.victorianweb.org /art/architecture/london/96.html (76 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Variety
		In the early 20th century, new purpose-built theatres, many designed by Frank Matcham, sprang up across Britain.
		Frank Matcham (1854-1920) was the most prolific theatre architect of the Edwardian era, creating what became called the 'Matchamite Empire'.
		Several of his theatres were designed by the famous architect Frank Matcham.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/music_hall_tour/the_story_of_the_music_halls/variety.php (667 words)

	Kings Theatre, Southsea
		It is the result of the vision and business acumen of John Waters Boughton and the architectural prowess of Frank Matcham, one of the greatest of theatre architects.
		Although Frank Matcham is very respected and his work is becoming well documented, J W Boughton remains largely unknown outside Portsmouth.
		He employed Matcham yet again to remodel the New Theatre Royal in 1900, and he took him into his confidence early in the new century when he began to discuss the building of a Drama and Opera House in Southsea.
	www.kings-southsea.com /main/history.html (1555 words)

	A&A \| Hackney Empire: Music Hall and Variety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Built in 1901 by the legendary theatre architect Frank Matcham, the Hackney Empire with its electric lights, central heating and in-built projection box, was a technological wonder of its time.
		The Empire is one of the few Matcham theatres to have survived into the twenty-first century, and is arguably the finest example of his work.
		The Hackney Empire has always attracted the brightest stars of the day, from the 'Queen of the Halls' Marie Lloyd, who lived in Graham Road just behind the Empire and whose act consciously shocked and challenged her audience, to Hollywood giants Charlie Chaplin and WC Fields.
	www.artandarchitecture.org.uk /stories/rhys-jones_hackney/rhys-jones_hackney01.html (151 words)

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